Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Right, I guess (according to my reasearch) desu can mean 'it is' when used in that way, but its meaning fluctuates with the setence.

Which is why I seriously don't want to try and learn the language.

The language, in the grand spectrum of languages, isn't actually all that difficult to learn. The fact that you aren't using or pronouncing English letters in foreign ways makes things unbelieveably easier. And it rarely deviates from the rules. A very logical language, all things considered.

'Desu' is for all intensive purposes, a verb meaning 'it is'. 'Deshita' is the past tense of the same verb, meaning 'it was'. 'Deshoo' is the future tense of the verb, meaning 'it will probably be'. And so on and so forth.